I didn't set out to chase the planet's thirst.It found me.One day, I stood at the edge of a lake that was no longer there - only a cracked salt floor stretching to the horizon, littered with the skeletons of boats. From that moment, my compass began pointing toward absence. Thirstline Walks is the story of following that invisible needle - across continents, climates, and languages - to places where water is vanishing faster than memory can keep up.I walked the white glare of Lake Urmia's retreat, the brittle shorelines of California's Salton Sea, the basalt windswept edges of Lake Turkana, and the ghost harbors of the Aral Sea. I traced ghost rivers through deserts, followed the dust of evaporated wetlands, and learned how to read the color of drought in a horizon's haze.These are not just hikes. They are acts of witness. Each trail carries both beauty and warning - flamingo clouds in the last pools, wind that smells of salt centuries old, the echo of fishing villages now miles from the shore. Along the way, I kept a field journal: part map, part memory, part survival guide for walking where the thirstline keeps moving.This book is for those who walk not only for scenery, but for truth - for anyone who has ever wondered how to step lightly across a landscape that is changing even as you take your next breath.